On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/03/13
05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
See Below...
Dear List -
I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image
of FreeDOS
{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve
it.}
Here is what I did:
1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me
it was /dev/sdf
2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r-- 1 ethan ethan 32505856 Mar 20 14:02
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
3] Attempted a dd
history |grep of
dd
if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf1/
dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf/
dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0
I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?
Ethan
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Dear List
Should I format the stkick FAT16?
rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472
sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd
Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table
Ethan
First off, the boot image is a .bz2 file. That is a bzip2
compressed file. You need to unzip it to make it into an image
file.
From reading the comments on the page for the USB download, it
appears that you should dd the image to /dev/sdf. Apparently it
contains the MBR and a partition table. Next you can mount the USB
key partition 1 (/dev/sdf1) somewhere and copy the bios update
program and the updated bios file to it. Finally, reboot to the
USB key and run the bios update program.
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Gary -
Thanks.
I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.
Downloaded and unzipped -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
total 32M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
Attempt dd -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
dd: opening `/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img': Input/output
error
Where is my error?
Ethan
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